Data Delights

A data-driven blog from Amherst College

Data Science students and Prof. Brittney E. Bailey

Fall 2021

As the semester comes to a close, we are delighted to share some data-driven discoveries from the Fall 2021 sections of Data Science at Amherst College!

Blog Posts

The Purple Tusks: Your Project Title Here

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Data Ballers: Your Project Title Here

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Facts And Stats: Incarceration Rates in America

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The Hogwarts Hammers: Suicide

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giRlbosses: Sustainability on College Campuses across the US

For the sentiment analysis section of our project, I (Gillian) scraped Amherst College’s most recent sustainability report from 2017, which can be accessed here through R code. I needed to be able to convert it into a data frame in R, which is why I scraped it. It is a .txt file with one string which I tokenized into words, removed the stop words, and counted the word frequencies to use in my sentiment analysis. We wanted to examine the sentiments found in this report because it will provide insight on how the college’s administration discusses issues surrounding sustainability.

Shiny Sea Turtles: Netflix

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